Another thing to take into consideration is that by no account is Russia intending on this being like Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam.
I think it’s quite obvious even to an average observer that Russia could have caused massive Ｓ Ｈ Ｏ Ｃ Ｋ Ａ Ｎ Ｄ Ａ Ｗ Ｅ destruction to Ukraine’s infrastructure but they did not. This doesn’t mean that Russia’s objectives in this offensive are failures, it means that attempting to understand Russian objectives through the lens of US invasions simply does not fit.
I’d say that it’s most important to focus on the economic moves that Russia is making now and what implications they will have moving forward to the global economy. The fog of war (and propaganda) surrounding offensive is intense and largely impenetrable but what happens on the level of geopolitics and the global economy is easier to trace out and I’d argue that it’s much more important.
Another thing to take into consideration is that by no account is Russia intending on this being like Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam.
I think it’s quite obvious even to an average observer that Russia could have caused massive Ｓ Ｈ Ｏ Ｃ Ｋ Ａ Ｎ Ｄ Ａ Ｗ Ｅ destruction to Ukraine’s infrastructure but they did not. This doesn’t mean that Russia’s objectives in this offensive are failures, it means that attempting to understand Russian objectives through the lens of US invasions simply does not fit.
I’d say that it’s most important to focus on the economic moves that Russia is making now and what implications they will have moving forward to the global economy. The fog of war (and propaganda) surrounding offensive is intense and largely impenetrable but what happens on the level of geopolitics and the global economy is easier to trace out and I’d argue that it’s much more important.